The fine print: No booking fee. Breakfast daily is included. Airline taxes start at $190, depending on your departure city. Price includes lodging taxes. Rental-car collision insurance costs roughly an additional $26 per day per car, and is offered at the rental-car company's counter. Based on double occupancy; single supplement is $320. Read these guidelines before you book any Real Deal.

Why it's a deal: The package price offers a savings of up to 40 percent off the peak-season rates and roughly 10 to 15 percent off the cost of booking a rental car and B&Bs on your own for travel in the winter.

Trip details: The Dooley Vacations car/hotel package capitalizes on the popularity of the movie “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep,” which is set in Scotland. The package includes an economy-class, three-door, manual-shift car from Alamo and six nights' accommodations. For three nights of the trip, you can choose your own lodging from a list of about 450 B&Bs throughout the country, using vouchers for payment. For three other nights of the strip, you stay at in Edinburgh at the luxurious MacDonald Holyrood Hotel, a 156-room property, which is located in a major park and a few blocks from Waverly Station and the center of town. (Upgrades to other hotels are available.)

The seven-day car rental gives you the freedom to explore the island. A manual-shift car is included, but most Americans will feel more comfortable driving in the left-hand lane if they have an automatic transmission. Upgrade to an automatic for about $42 per week per person. Note that you'll pick up the car and drop it off at the airport. If you pick the car up at noon, you'll need to set the drop-off time for before noon, seven days later, or you'll be charged for another 24-hour segment — in euros.

The package includes a few other perks, such as the 3-D Loch Ness Experience in Edinburgh (where you don special eyewear to see a film about the monster), the four-hour Jacobite Sensation cruise on Loch Ness, and a Historic Scotland Pass that offers discounted admission to national historic sites, such as the restored ancient fortress Edinburgh Castle.